Category: News!
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Funded-period for the SMART project comes to an end
After finishing the GRAMMY Museum Research Grant funds in August 2025, it is now time to finish the MSCA-funded period. Since the MSCA postdoctoral fellow will start a new job next month, the SMART MSCA-funded period has to be terminated (no other full-time job is compatible with MSCA grants) 10 months before the original plan.…
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SMART Project Mentioned in a Recent Blog Post from The Internet Doctor | Dr. Antti
In one of his recent posts, Finnish Medical Doctor and Health & Science Communicator Dr. Antti Rintanen presents recent evidence and discusses how movement and cognitive interventions, including the ones based in the arts, can give adolescents a more active, stimulating way to engage with the digital world and social media, compared to passive scrolling.…
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Lucía Vaquero participates in the outreach round-table KeKaña Talks!
On Saturday, October 25th, 2025, LV participated in the round table KeKaña Talks, in the context of the KeKaña Music Festival, in Guadalajara (Spain). Organized by Patricia Biosca, scientific journalist and co-organizer of the music festival, was completed by Ana Lozano, biologist and science communicator in the podcast Interdepenciencia, and Natalia de Lucas, a mathematician…
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Presentation of SMART at UCM!
As an official presentation for the lab-conglomerate Cibersomosaguas to which Prof. Elisa Garcia-Mingo –and by extension the fellow– belongs to, as well as a public seminar for Master’s Students within the Sociology programs of ‘Applied Sociology: Social Issues’ and ‘Research Methodology in Social Sciences’, LV gave a presentation at UCM on October 22nd, 2025 about…
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First SMART outcome paper published!
SMART’s protocol paper has just been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology and the whole team is absolutely ecstactic! Although later than originally planned, the publication of our experimental protocol reflects years of intense work, funding application, partner and research site selection, team creation, seeking for ethics approval by NYU and the…
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Celebrating the end of the Intervention Period with the SMART Exhibition!
On May 31st, 2025, NYU’s 370 Jay St. building received members from all the different environments that have come together and made possible the SMART project: student participants and their families, Teaching Artists, educators and other high school personnel, scientists involved in the project and other researchers from the neuro-arts / neuro-music / sound and…
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The SMART project presented at IRCAM (Paris, FR)
Taking advantage of her visit to France, LV was invited to give a talk at Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music to present the SMART project and get to know a bit about the reseach performed there, specifically at the Sciences et Technologie de la Musique et du Son (STMS). Hosted and conducted by…
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Part of the SMART team at the NeMO-CAMP 2024
Prof. Pablo Ripollés and Dr. Lucía Vaquero attended this week the first NeMO-CAMP workshop in Carry-le-Rouet (France). The interesting and promising premise behind this gathering is to establish and reinforce the links between researchers from the Neuroscience & Music field that have collaborative tights with institutions and researchers located in the South of Europe (mostly…
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SMART represented during MARL & CoHRR: Sound + Health Research Day
On Friday October 25th, 2024, NYU’s 370 Jay St. facilities held the MARL & CoHRR: Sound + Health Research Day. This was a one-day event for researchers from the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL) and the Center for Health and Rehabilitation Research (CoHRR) to introduce each other, their teams, and their lines of research,…
Social Media Artistic tRaining in Teenagers (SMART) 